Golding and Co. Factory Log Book of Jobber, Pearl and Official Press Serial Numbers (and Paper Cutters). This is a typescript original factory logbook from Golding & Co., Franklin, MA. It appears here through the courtesy of its owner, Stephen O. Saxe. The pages in the original typescript are bound at the top. The backs of all but one of the pages are blank; these blank pages were not scanned. For the original presentation of this work online, see:...
Topics: printing press, golding, pearl, golding, pearl
A catalog of lathes manufactured by F. E. Reed & Co.
Topics: lathe, reed, machine tool
Bauer, Friedrich. Das Giessinstrument des Schriftgiessers. ["The Typefounders' Hand Mold"] Hamburg, DE: Genzsch and Heyse, 1922
Topics: typefounding, typecasting, hand mold, hand mould
A catalog for the Line-O-Scribe printing press as manufactured by the Morgan Sign Machine Company. This was a machine intended for use in retail stores to allow them to create product signs ("show cards") without employing a professional show card writer. It dates from some point after 1948 (when Morgan acquired the Line-O-Scribe product) but probably before 1963 (because it does not use ZIP codes). As reprinted here it also includes two later supplemental items: an order blank and a...
Topics: printing, show card, sign press
An early catalog for the Line-O-Scribe sign machine (a specialized letterpress printing press), when the company was still located in Adrian, Michigan.
Topics: printing, sign writing, show cards
A four page brochure with instructions for using the Morgan Line-O-Scribe sign-making printing press.
Topics: printing, sign making
Figgins, James. "Type Founding and Printing During the Nineteenth Century, A Short Review." (London: V. & J. Figgins, 1900) The firm of V. and J. Figgins was one of the major English type foundries of its day. Figgins' views on electrotyping (electroforming) matrices and on the inadvisability of adopting the American Point System are particularly interesting.
Topic: typefounding
A booklet containing the procedures for assembling a later "Blue Streak" era Model 8 Linotype from the "stripped to base" state that it would be in as shipped from the factory to a US destination. 1936. Printing code: 621.08-K-O-15Z
Topics: linotype, assembly, maintenance, model 8
A catalogue and specimen of the type and presses offered for sale by Joseph Watson and intended for amateur printers and small businesses. The presses include the Centennial, Young America, Last and Best, United States, Samson, and Lightning lines of presses. This digital edition was scanned by Stephen O. Saxe from his copy, with additional image preparation by Dr. David M. MacMillan. The two ordinary PDF files here are 600dpi (349 Megabytes) and 300dpi (191 Meg.) versions of this document. The...
Topics: watson, young america, printing presses, printing press, type
The June, 1964 edition of Service Instruction No. 22 for the Mergenthaler Linotype Company's "Elektron" line of Linotype composing linecasting machines.
Topics: mergenthaler, linotype, elektron
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A catalog and type specimen book for the "Novelty" line of small printing presses manufactured by Benjamin O. Woods & Co. and intended for amateur printers and small businesses. This digital edition was scanned by Stephen O. Saxe from his copy, with additional image preparation by Dr. David M. MacMillan. This catalogue is a part of An Archive of Amateur Press Catalogues. For a page linking to other catalogues in this archive, go to:...
Topics: woods, novelty press, printing presses, type
1907 type specimen book of the Barnhart Brothers and Spindler type foundry in Chicago. Assembled from scans presented by The Hathi Trust of the University of Michigan copy (Hathi Trust ID: mdp.39015019203291 ). This is the BB&S Specimen Book No. 9. It was issued in at least four versions, numbered "9", "9*", "9**", and "9***". This version says "SPECIMEN BOOK NO. 9" on its title page. Confusingly, though, the bibliographic record for it at...
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Topics: type, type specimens, typefounding
The June, 1968 edition of the electrical system service manual for the Mergenthaler Linotype Company "Elektron" line (Elektron, Elektron II, Elektron Mixer, but not the Auto-Controlled Elektron).
A study of issues of legibility in type design in various circumstances (newspaper use, etc.) with particular reference to Mergenthaler Linotype faces in the "Legibility Group." The copyright date of this work is 1935. The printing code on this copy is "300.01-C-O-15X". The 'O' in this code works out to 1936.
A booklet promoting the typeface "Corona" by the Mergenthaler Linotype company which illustrates its use in a variety of situations (primarily newspapers). Printing code: 312.19-J-PP-23X ("PP" = 1951)
Topics: linotype, typography, specimen books
The derivation process for this item failed on an Internet Archive technical problem. Rather than have them re-start it manually it was easier just to re-do the item. So see instead: https://archive.org/details/LinotypeCorona1951try2
Topics: linotype, printing type
This is a catalogue of printing presses, type, and other printing material sold by J. Cook and Company in Meriden, CT. 1877. This digital edition was scanned by Stephen O. Saxe from his copy, with additional image preparation by Dr. David M. MacMillan. This catalogue shows several presses which are more commonly associated with other companies, so some notes are in order. Stephen O. Saxe explains the history of the Cook company: "James Cook was part-owner of a block of buildings in...
This is a single issue of "The Printers' Review," the house organ of Golding and Company (makers of the Pearl, Jobber, and other presses). New Series No. 13 (1 May 1893). Published in Boston by Golding and Company. This is the Chicago "World's Fair Edition." It is notable for a two-page article on "The Building of a Press." Scanned by Stephen O. Saxe from a copy in his collection, with additional image processing by Dr. David M. MacMillan.
Topics: printing presses, golding, pearl
This is a parts price list for the Lanston Monotype Composition Caster and Keyboard. It is undated, but must date from between 1907 (the date of introduction of the Style D Keyboard) and January 1910 (the date of the earliest dated update in it); it is probably from 1907. Pages 101-102 of the Caster section are missing from the item as scanned.
Topics: lanston monotype, typecasting, composing machines
"Improved Illustrated and Descriptive Catalogue, 1881: Presses and Tools and Printing Materials." (Boston: Golding & Co., 1881.) This digital edition was scanned by Stephen O. Saxe from his copy, with additional image preparation by Dr. David M. MacMillan. This catalogue is a part of An Archive of Amateur Press Catalogues. For a page linking to other catalogues in this archive, go to: https://archive.org/details/AnArchiveOfAmateurPressCatalogues
Topics: golding, printing presses, printing press, type
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"Illustrated Catalogue of Linotype Parts Manufactured and Sold By Ott. Mergenthaler & Co." (Baltimore, MD: Ott. Mergenthaler & Co., 1898). This is a catalogue produced by Ottmar Mergenthaler's own machine shop in Baltimore after his falling-out with the New York based syndicate which became the Mergenthaler Linotype Company. Because the NY company controlled the basic Linotype patents, only they could manufacture complete machines. Mergenthaler's own company manufactured both...
Topics: ottmar mergenthaler, linotype
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A catalogue of printing presses, materials, and type by the Sigwalt Manufacturing Company of Chicago. It is Sigwalt catalogue no. 8, circa 1908. This digital edition was scanned by Stephen O. Saxe from his copy, with additional image preparation by Dr. David M. MacMillan. This catalogue is a part of An Archive of Amateur Press Catalogues. For a page linking to other catalogues in this archive, go to: https://archive.org/details/AnArchiveOfAmateurPressCatalogues
Topics: sigwalt, printing presses, printing press, type
This is James Eckman's bibliography of the articles by Henry Lewis Bullen which appeared in his "Collectanea Typographica" series in The Inland Printer from 1918 to 1931 (with interruptions). Note that it does not inlude other articles by Bullen, even when they appeared in the same issue of The Inland Printer. This volume was printed by Eckman at his private press (The Doomsday Press, Rochester, MN). 400 copies were allocated to The Typophiles, and it was simultaneously Typophiles...
Topics: bullen, printing history
A jewelry trade catalog published under the name of O. C. Kraehmer and Son, retail jewelers in Galena, Illinois. This catalog is pretty clearly just a wholesaler's catalog with the Kraehmer name on the cover, but I have not yet been able to determine the firm of wholesalers. It was printed by The Faithorn Company, Chicago (attested from other sources as printers, not jewelry wholesalers), and is not a paragon of the printer's art. Students of mathematics will no doubt take delight in the...
Topics: jewelry, watches, hamilton, Deuber-Hampden
A specimen book of ornamental border matrices and matrix slides for the Linotype composing linecaster. This entry contains the book divided into several smaller PDFs for ease of downloading. For the main entry for this book (which has more complete bibliographic information, contains caveats about known aesthetic issues in the scan and presents the entire book in a single large PDF for easier online reading) see:https://archive.org/details/LinotypeDecorativeMaterial1929 The best way to use this...
Topics: linotype, typography, specimen books
A specimen book of ornamental border matrices and matrix slides for the Linotype composing linecaster. This is the April 1929 reprint (printing code: 350.01). It is very similar to the 1928 edition, and much of this material appears at least as early as the 1923 edition. It includes an insert of "Garamond Decorative Material Designed by T. M. Cleland and also a two-page insert (printing code 350.12) of "A New Group of Linotype Matrix Slides" which was not present in the 1928...
Topics: linotype, typography, specimen books
An executive-level "semi-technical" overview of the Teletypesetter system from a Mergenthaler Linotype perspective. It contains good illustrations of the basic TTS components.
Topics: linotype, teletypesetter
"Linotype Lubrication." (Brooklyn, NY: Mergenthaler Linotype Company, 1945. Printing code 610.19-I-X-2X (which dates it to September 1945 by the Mergenthaler coding of dates in their printing codes). This material appeared originally in the book "Linotype Machine Principles" (1940), which is online at linotype.org . It was later reprinted in a booklet in the "Linotype Life Extension" series: "General Maintenance (Part I): Routine Checkups, Cleaning and...
Topic: linotype
"Linotype Keyboard Practice." (Brooklyn, NY: Mergenthaler Linotype Company, 1947). This booklet contains extracts from the 1940 Mergenthaler book "Linotype Keyboard Operation." It was issued in the present from in 1947 as a booklet in the series "Linotype Lifetime Extension." Printing code: 610.32-I-Z-10X.
Topic: linotype
"General Maintenance (Part IV): Distribution and Driving." (Brooklyn, NY: Mergenthaler Linotype Company, 1942.) This is a booklet in the "Linotype Life Extension" series. Printing code: 610.25-C-U-22X. In addition to its material on the Distribution and Driving sections of the machine, this booklet also includes a section on Adjustments of all divisions of the Linotype.
Topic: linotype
"General Maintenance (Part III): Casting." (Brooklyn, NY: Mergenthaler Linotype Company, 1942.) This is a booklet in the "Linotype Life Extension" series. Printing code: 610.27-D-U-22X.
Topic: linotype
"General Maintenance (Part II): Assembling." (Brooklyn, NY: Mergenthaler Linotype Company, 1942.) This is a booklet in the "Linotype Life Extension" series. Printing code: 610.26-C-U-22X.
Topic: linotype
"General Maintenance (Part I): Routine Checkups, Cleaning and Lubrication." (Brooklyn, NY: Mergenthaler Linotype Company, 1942.) This is a booklet in the "Linotype Life Extension" series. Printing code: 610.25-C-U-22X.
Topic: linotype
"The Care and Maintenance of Matrices." A booklet in the series "Linotype Lifetime Extension" by the Mergenthaler Linotype Company. Printing code: 610.23 B U 25X.
Topic: linotype
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"How to Print: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Celebrated Model Printing Press." (Philadelphia, PA: J. W. Daughaday and Company, Circa 1880.) This digital edition was scanned by Stephen O. Saxe from his copy, with additional image preparation by Dr. David M. MacMillan. This catalogue is a part of An Archive of Amateur Press Catalogues. For a page linking to other catalogues in this archive, go to: https://archive.org/details/AnArchiveOfAmateurPressCatalogues
Topic: printing press
"Remington Notes," Vol. 4, No. 7 (May 1918). A house organ "published for stenographers and typists by the Remington Typewriter Company." This number is notable for an obituary (and portrait) of William K. Jenne (1837-1918), the now unknown engineer who actually made the typewriter work
Topics: typewriters, william k. jenne
"Remington Notes," Vol. 4, No. 4 (May 1917). A house organ "published for stenographers and typists by the Remington Typewriter Company."
Topic: typewriters
This is the October 1923 issue of the American and English trade journal "Typewriter Topics" (Vol. 55, No. 2). It was published as "The 50th Anniversary Historical Number" to mark the 50th anniversary of the typewriter industry (not of the magazine itself) and consists largely of a long anonymous article entitled "A Condensed History of the Writing Machine: The Romance of Earlier Effort and the Realities of Present Day Accomplishments." The item reprinted here is...
Topic: typewriters
A catalogue of printing presses, materials, and type by W. A. Kelsey and Co. It is undated, but when Kelsey and Co. was still in operation the owner of this copy, Stephen O. Saxe, compared it against their copy, which bore the date 1878. This digital edition was scanned by Stephen O. Saxe from his copy, with additional image preparation by Dr. David M. MacMillan. This catalogue is a part of An Archive of Amateur Press Catalogues. For a page linking to other catalogues in this archive, go to:...
Topics: Kelsey, printing press, printing presses, type
This is a page which doesn't contain a single, specific, item but rather is acting as a collection page for an Archive of Amateur Press Catalogues scanned and reprinted by Stephen O. Saxe with additional image preparation by Dr. David M. MacMillan. So don't click on the "View the Book" links to the left, but instead follow the links below to individual reprints. The catalogues scanned so far are: Cook 1877. https://archive.org/details/Cook1877PrintingPresses Daughaday c. 1880....
Topic: amateur printing presses
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This page was a failed early attempt to create an informal "collections" page linking items of An Archive of Amateur Press Catalogues. Should Internet Archive administrators come across this page, they should please delete it. In the meantime, readers interested in catalogues for printing presses manufactured primarily for the use of amateurs should go instead to the working collections page at: https://archive.org/details/AnArchiveOfAmateurPressCatalogues
Topic: amateur printing presses
The Printer Manufacturing Co.'s "Illustrated Catalogue of Printing Presses and Printing Materials." This is an 1874 catalog of printing presses, type, and supplies by what would later become the Golding & Company (they are listed here only as "Managers"). 20 pages, plus covers. This digital edition was scanned by Stephen O. Saxe from his copy, with additional image preparation by Dr. David M. MacMillan. This catalogue is a part of An Archive of Amateur Press...
Topics: golding, pearl, printing press, diamond, printing presses
A catalog of printing machinery, equipment, and supplies as sold by the American Type Founders Company in 1897. It also includes a small selection of wood type and an extensive and informative section of Useful Information for Printers. This digital edition was scanned by Stephen O. Saxe from his copies, with additional image preparation by Dr. David M. MacMillan.
Topics: printing, printing machinery, american type founders, atf
This is a test page for CircuitousRoot digital reprints. If you happen across it, please don't link to it as it is temporary. Right now, it contains test PDFs for a scan of an 1897 American Type Founders Company Illustrated Catalogue and Price List of Printing Machinery (scanned by Stephen O. Saxe). There are two versions here, one scaled to 50% of the original (thus effectively 300dpi) and the other scaled to 25% of the original (thus effectively 150 dpi). The image quality of the latter...
Topic: printing machinery
A section from the 1930s Intertype Corporation specimen book, "The Book of Intertype Faces." This extract contains pp. 249-264, which show "Kenntonian" (their copy of Kennerley). This extract is part of a project to digitize this entire specimen book. For other sections, see: http://www.circuitousroot.com/artifice/letters/press/compline/typography/books/intertype/intertype-faces/index.html
Topics: type, type specimen books, intertype, linotype, kennerley
Rollins, Carl Purington. "American Type Designers and Their Work." "Print" [magazine] Vol. 5, No. 4 (1948): 1-20. This is a reprint in 1948 of three items from the literature prepared by Carl Purington Rollins (printer to Yale University) for an exhibition of this name held at the Lakeside Press (the prestige imprint of R. R. Donnelley and Sons) in Chicago from 1947-11-03 to 1948-02-27. It contains an essay, "American Type Designers and Their Work," a list of...
Topics: type, letterform design, type design, type designers
This is the material distributed in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name at The Lakeside Press (the prestige imprint of R. R. Donnelley and Sons) in Chicago from 1947-11-03 to 1948-02-27. It consists of the announcement for the exhibition, an essay "American Type Designers and Their Work" (by Rollins), and a list of "American Type Designers and Their Type Faces" (also by Rollins). This list is the source of most later attributions of type design for the first half...
Topics: type, letterform design, type design, type designers
A typographical specimen book showing the unit-set types developed by Linn Boyd Benton under the trade name "Self Spacing" type. It is undated, but loosely slipped into it is a page listing users of "Benton's Self Spacing Type" which has on its back a letter to Benton, Waldo and Co. dated Dec. 18, 1886. A portion of the text of this letter would seem to be the original copy for the showing of Self Spacing Old Style Italic on page 14 of this specimen.
Topics: type, benton, self-spacing type, unit-set type
This is a reprint of the booklet "Directions for Adjusting [the] Lead and Rule Mold Operating Attachment and [the] Automatic Cutter" (Philadelphia, PA: Lanston Monotype Machine Company, 1917). This booklet gives instructions for installing and adjusting the Lead and Rule Attachment (the Mold and the Automatic Cutter) on either the Monotype Composition Caster (assuming that the Speed Regulating Attachment is in place) or the Type Caster (Convertible) / Type-&-Rule Caster. It also...
Topics: monotype, stripcasting, printers leads, printers rule, stripcasting, leads, rule, strip material
The packet of instructions which shipped with the Model 10 Royal typewriter. This includes the 8-page booklet "Instructions for the Care and Use of the Royal Typewriter Model 10" (publication A-100),the envelope in which these instructions shipped (which contains printed upon it "Instructions for Unpacking," form [B?]-185),and a folded sheet of quick instructions entitled "Yout Might Just As Well Save this Money For Yourself". This literature is not dated but is...
Topic: typewriters
An instruction manual for the Royal Portable Typewriter. Publication No. "A-225-English".
Topic: typewriters
This is a test page by dmm@lemur.com. Please ignore.
Topic: test dmmlemur
A comprehensive 1902 illustrated catalog of English letterpress printing and related equipment. This digital edition was scanned by Stephen O. Saxe from his copy, with additional image preparation by Dr. David M. MacMillan.
Topics: printing, lithography, letterpress, typefounding
An 1894 advertising brochure for the Thorne Type-Setting Machine. The Thorne was later developed into the Simplex and finally the Unitype. This digital edition was scanned by Stephen O. Saxe from his copy, with additional image preparation by Dr. David M. MacMillan.
Topics: typesetting machines, thorne, simplex, typesetter, unitype, one-man typesetter
An advertising brochure by Wood & Nathan Co. as representatives of The Unitype Company for the Unitype One-Man Type Setting Machine. It bears no date, but as it refers to the machine as a "Unitype" it must have been published after 1901 (a different brochure datable to 1901 refers to it by its earlier name, the "Simplex.") Both the Simplex and the Unitype were developments of the Thorne Type Setting Machine. This digital edition was scanned by Stephen O. Saxe from his...
Topics: typesetting machines, thorne, simplex, typesetter, unitype, one-man typesetter
A four-page advertising brochure by the Unitype Company for their Simplex One-Man Typesetter. It bears no date, but must have been published in 1901 based on its references to the Pan-American Exposition. This digital edition was scanned by Stephen O. Saxe from his copy, with additional image preparation by Dr. David M. MacMillan.
Topics: typesetting machines, simplex, typesetter, unitype, one-man typesetter
This specimen was produced at a point of great change in the American typefounding industry. The owners of the Central Type Foundry (Schraubstadter and St. John) had purchased the Boston Type Foundry in 1888. This specimen book, a joint effort of the two type foundries, is dated 1892. That is the year in which both companies were sold into the newly formed American Type Founders amalgamation. The bulk of the specimen book itself makes no reference to ATF. However, a final page (which is...
Topics: type, typefounding, type specimen books
Issue No. 27 of the journal "Typographer's Digest," edited by Alexander Lawson. This issue was devoted to Frederic W. Goudy. It is notable for including the text of a letter by Goudy to Sol Hess describing his methods ("The Goudy Method"); this contains the only published information on the way in which Goudy determined the justification (lining and fitting) of his matrices. It also includes a delightful "Refusal Order Blank" made up by Goudy's friends to celebrate...
Topics: typefounding, matrix engraving, matrix justifying
This is a 1966 edition, edited, typeset, and printed by Paul Hayden Duensing, of a 1931 letter from Phil. T. Nuernberger to Archie Little on the subject of the electroforming of matrices for casting printing types.
Topics: typefounding, electroforming matrices
Parts book for the Model 221 Davidson Dual Duplicator, an office-environment printing press capable of both lithographic and relief (letterpress) printing.
Topics: printing, lithography, letterpress, printing presses
Machine setting of ruled forms for the Lanston Monotype Composition Caster and Keyboard. Undated, but post-1943 as it uses a city zone code in its address.
Topics: lanston monotype, ruled forms
"Monotype Type-&-Rule Ruled Form System." (Philadelpha, PA: Lanston Monotype Machine Company, n.d. [but 1943 or later, as it uses a city zone code]). Rule Dashes, Leaders, and Strip Rule cast on the Lanston Monotype Type-&-Rule Casterfor ruleform composition by hand. No mention of the Giant Caster or Material Maker.
Topics: montype, ruleform composition, ruled form system
This is a specimen of non-ornamental rule and corresponding corner-pieces with matrices to be used in the Lanston Monotype Type-&-Rule Caster, the Lanston Monotype Material Making Machine / Junior Material Making Machine, or both. Undated, but probably 1922-1925. For a discussion of the confusing way in which these machines are named in this document, see the original presentation of this digital version at: ...
Topics: stripcasting, material making, lanston monotype
An 8-page French-folded brochure for the Lanston Monotype Type-&-Rule Caster, with specimens. A brochure in this format (which opens up in two folds to a poster) is difficult to present in single-page scans. The opened first fold is scanned as two pages. The top and bottom sections of the opened second fold (which constitute a 4-page poster) are scanned in three pages each (left, middle, right) as the specimens in them span the division between the left and right halves. The entire document...
Topics: typecasting, lanston monotype
Parts catalog for Miller platen printing press automatic paper feeders.
Topics: printing presses, printing, press feeders
Manual for the Lanston Monotype Material Making Machine (a fusion stripcasting machine for making strip material for letterpress printing). 1936 edition. Thanks are due to Raky Press for preserving this document and making it available. The paper original of this document is in poor condition as acquired by Raky Press. It lacks its cover. Curiously, the sheet containing pp. 15-16 and 81-82 seems never to have been bound in to it (it was slipped in after p. 80). In this reprint I have placed...
Topics: stripcasting, printing, monotype, lanston
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A relatively late edition of the manual for the Lanston Monotype Material Making Machine (a fusion stripcasting machine for letterpress printing strip material).
Topics: stripcasting, printing, monotype, lanston
Manual for the Lanston Monotype Material Making Machine, a fusion strip-casting machine for letterpress printing leads, slugs, and rule. 1936 edition as revised in 1947. Thanks are due to Raky Press for preserving this document and making it available. The paper original of this document is in poor condition as acquired by Raky Press. Plate V is missing (it is present in the 1936 edition reprinted at http://www.archive.org/details/LanstonMonotypeMaterialMakerAdjustments1936wrz )
Topics: stripcasting, printing, monotype, lanston
Part list (no prices) for the Lanston Monotype Material Making Machine. Effective April 1, 1952. Thanks are due to Schuyler Shipley and Skyline Type Foundry for preserving this document and making it available.
Topics: stripcasting, printing, monotype, lanston
Parts List: The Monotype Keyboard. (Philadelphia, PA: The Lanston Monotype Machine Company, 1952) Effective April 1, 1952. "For use with Keyboards 6800 and following." Thanks are due to Sky Shipley of Skyline Type Foundry for preserving this information and making it available.
Topics: typecasting, lanston monotype
Parts Price List: The Monotype Keyboard. (Philadelphia: Lanston Monotype Machine Company, 1942). Effective 1941-03-01, revised 1942-03-10. Printing code: 463-3-42-1750. Thanks are due to Sky Shipley of Skyline Type Foundry for preserving this information and making it available. This copy was heavily annotated by its former owner, and many of these annotations refer to parts available from a third-party Lanston Monotype distributor, Sorga Incorprated. It also included, slipped in, a much later...
Topics: printing, typecasting, monotype
A 16 page brochure for the Material Making Machine. It consists primarily of showings of the various types of strip and decorative material it could cast; it contains little technical detail. It is undated. (Richard L. Hopkins, in "Tolbert Lanston and the Monotype" (Tampa, FL: University of Tampa Press, 2012), p. 78) dates the introduction of the Material Making Machine to 1923. The underlying patent for fusion casting was issued to Amos L. Knight in 1917, but was filed in 1914.)...
Topics: monotype, stripcasting, material making, borders
Instruction manual for the Miller Automatic [paper] Feeders for platen printing presses
Topics: printing, press, feeders
Miller Automatic Feeders [catalog] Third edition. (Pittsburgh, PA: Miller Saw-Trimmer Company, 1926.) This is a catalog rather than an instruction manual, but it does show certain aspects of the operation of this feeder by way of advertising them. This digitization includes three ephemeral items slipped into this catalog: A cover letter from the Miller Printing Machinery Company ["name changed from Miller Saw-Trimmer Comany"] to the Wilson Printing Company of Beaver Dam, Wisconsin...
Topics: printing presses, printing, press feeders
This is section "Terms" of the book of information issued by the Ludlow Typograph Company to its sales force. This particular copy of this book is No. 47, current through 1962. It appears here through the courtesy of its present owner, Jeff Shay. This section covers Ludlow Typograph Company Terms for sales. For an index of and links to scans of the other sections of this book, see:...
Topics: ludlow salesmens book, ludlow typograph, elrod, linecasting
This is section "TA" of the book of information issued by the Ludlow Typograph Company to its sales force. This particular copy of this book is No. 47, current through 1962. It appears here through the courtesy of its present owner, Jeff Shay. This section covers Ludlow Typograph Company Trade-In Allowances. For an index of and links to scans of the other sections of this book, see:...
Topics: ludlow salesmens book, ludlow typograph, elrod, linecasting
This is section "Rblt-L" of the book of information issued by the Ludlow Typograph Company to its sales force. This particular copy of this book is No. 47, current through 1962. It appears here through the courtesy of its present owner, Jeff Shay. This section covers Ludlow practices for Rebuilt and Class "R" Equipment. For an index of and links to scans of the other sections of this book, see:...
Topics: ludlow salesmens book, ludlow typograph, elrod, linecasting, ludlow typograph, elrod, linecasting
This is section "EL-MO" of the book of information issued by the Ludlow Typograph Company to its sales force. This particular copy of this book is No. 47, current through 1962. It appears here through the courtesy of its present owner, Jeff Shay. This section covers Molds for the Elrod stripcasting machine. For an index of and links to scans of the other sections of this book, see:...
Topics: ludlow salesmens book, ludlow typograph, elrod, linecasting
This is section "E-AX" of the book of information issued by the Ludlow Typograph Company to its sales force. This particular copy of this book is No. 47, current through 1962. It appears here through the courtesy of its present owner, Jeff Shay. This section covers Auxiliary Equipment for the Elrod stripcasting machine. For an index of and links to scans of the other sections of this book, see:...
Topics: ludlow salesmens book, ludlow typograph, elrod, linecasting
This is section "E-M" of the book of information issued by the Ludlow Typograph Company to its sales force. This particular copy of this book is No. 47, current through 1962. It appears here through the courtesy of its present owner, Jeff Shay. This section covers Elrod [stripcasting] Machines. For an index of and links to scans of the other sections of this book, see:...
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This is section "Acc" of the book of information issued by the Ludlow Typograph Company to its sales force. This particular copy of this book is No. 47, current through 1962. It appears here through the courtesy of its present owner, Jeff Shay. This section covers Accented-Character Matrices For an index of and links to scans of the other sections of this book, see: http://www.circuitousroot.com/artifice/letters/press/noncompline/ludlow/literature/sales/salesmens-book-47/index.html
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This is section "R&L" of the book of information issued by the Ludlow Typograph Company to its sales force. This particular copy of this book is No. 47, current through 1962. It appears here through the courtesy of its present owner, Jeff Shay. This section covers Rules and Leaders, but has nothing to do with politics. For an index of and links to scans of the other sections of this book, see:...
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This is section "RF" of the book of information issued by the Ludlow Typograph Company to its sales force. This particular copy of this book is No. 47, current through 1962. It appears here through the courtesy of its present owner, Jeff Shay. This section covers Ruleform Matrices. For an index of and links to scans of the other sections of this book, see: http://www.circuitousroot.com/artifice/letters/press/noncompline/ludlow/literature/sales/salesmens-book-47/index.html
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This is section "BOR" of the book of information issued by the Ludlow Typograph Company to its sales force. This particular copy of this book is No. 47, current through 1962. It appears here through the courtesy of its present owner, Jeff Shay. This section covers Borders and Ornaments. For an index of and links to scans of the other sections of this book, see: http://www.circuitousroot.com/artifice/letters/press/noncompline/ludlow/literature/sales/salesmens-book-47/index.html
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These are sections "S" and "S-1" to "S-6" of the book of information issued by the Ludlow Typograph Company to its sales force. This particular copy of this book is No. 47, current through 1962. It appears here through the courtesy of its present owner, Jeff Shay. These sections cover "Miscellaneous Sorts Matrices" (primarily speci al symbols). For an index of and links to scans of the other sections of this book, see:...
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This is section "SF" of the book of information issued by the Ludlow Typograph Company to its sales force. This particular copy of this book is No. 47, current through 1962. It appears here through the courtesy of its present owner, Jeff Shay. This section covers Sort Fonts, and consists primarily of a fonting scheme for sorts fonts. For an index of and links to scans of the other sections of this book, see:...
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These are sections F-51 through F-54 of the book of information issued by the Ludlow Typograph Company to its sales force. This particular copy of this book is No. 47, current through 1962. It appears here through the courtesy of its present owner, Jeff Shay. These sections cover the matrix fonts for Ludlow typeface families No. 51 (Formal Script), No. 52 (Florentine), No. 53 (Wave), and No. 54 (Times new Roman). Note that Formal Script is one of the few Ludlow faces which requires a...
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These are sections F-46 through F-50 of the book of information issued by the Ludlow Typograph Company to its sales force. This particular copy of this book is No. 47, current through 1962. It appears here through the courtesy of its present owner, Jeff Shay. These sections cover the matrix fonts for Ludlow typeface families No. 46 (Greenwich), No. 47 (Samson), No. 48 (Flair), No. 49 (Admiral Script), and No. 50 (Society Text). Note that Flair is one of the few Ludlow faces which requires a...
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These are sections F-41 through F-45 of the book of information issued by the Ludlow Typograph Company to its sales force. This particular copy of this book is No. 47, current through 1962. It appears here through the courtesy of its present owner, Jeff Shay. These sections cover the matrix fonts for Ludlow typeface families No. 41 (Stencil), No. 42 (Coronet), No. 43 (Radiant), No. 44 (Commerce Gothic), and No. 45 (Lining Litho). For an index of and links to scans of the other sections of...
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These are sections F-36 through F-40 of the book of information issued by the Ludlow Typograph Company to its sales force. This particular copy of this book is No. 47, current through 1962. It appears here through the courtesy of its present owner, Jeff Shay. These sections cover the matrix fonts for Ludlow typeface families No. 36 (Mandate), No. 37 (Eden), No. 38 (Hauser Script), No. 39 (Plantin), and No. 40 (Eusebius). (Note: Mandate has the regular italic slant, but as a connecting...
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These are sections F-31 through F-35 of the book of information issued by the Ludlow Typograph Company to its sales force. This particular copy of this book is No. 47, current through 1962. It appears here through the courtesy of its present owner, Jeff Shay. These sections cover the matrix fonts for Ludlow typeface families No. 31 (Mayfair Cursive), No. 34 (Umbra), and No. 35 (Lafayette). (Typeface families 32 and 33 are unknown and may not have been issued.) For an index of and links to...
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These are sections F-26 [really F-27] through F-30 of the book of information issued by the Ludlow Typograph Company to its sales force. This particular copy of this book is No. 47, current through 1962. It appears here through the courtesy of its present owner, Jeff Shay. These sections cover the matrix fonts for Ludlow typeface families No. 27 (Stellar), No. 28 (Tempo), No. 29 (Hebrew), and No. 30 (Karnak). (Typeface family 26 is unknown and may not have been issued.) For an index of and...
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These are sections F-21 through F-25 of the book of information issued by the Ludlow Typograph Company to its sales force. This particular copy of this book is No. 47, current through 1962. It appears here through the courtesy of its present owner, Jeff Shay. These sections cover the matrix fonts for Ludlow typeface families No. 21 (Delphian Open Title), No. 22 (Ultra-Modern), No. 23 (Typewriter [Underwood Bold]), No. 24 (Garamond), and No. 25 (Stygian Black). For an index of and links to...
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This is an upload to an unintended URL. While the document is correct in itself, it is at a location unlikely to be found. I've re-uploaded it at the intended URL: https://archive.org/details/LudlowSalesmensBook47F21F25 Please link to that upload, not this one. These are sections F-21 through F-25 of the book of information issued by the Ludlow Typograph Company to its sale force. This particular copy of this book is No. 47, current through 1962. It appears here through the courtesy of its...
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These are sections F-16 through F-20 of the book of information issued by the Ludlow Typograph Company to its sales force. This particular copy of this book is No. 47, current through 1962. It appears here through the courtesy of its present owner, Jeff Shay. These sections cover the matrix fonts for Ludlow typeface families No. 16 (Fraktur), No. 17 (Engravers Bold [n.b., no apostrophe]), No. 18 (Victoria Italic), No. 19 (Cameo), and No. 20 (Old English). For an index of and links to scans...
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These are sections F-11 through F-15 of the book of information issued by the Ludlow Typograph Company to its sales force. This particular copy of this book is No. 47, current through 1962. It appears here through the courtesy of its present owner, Jeff Shay. These sections cover the matrix fonts for Ludlow typeface families No. 11 ("No. 11"), No. 14 (Bookman), and No. 15 (Ludlow Black). Ludlow typeface family No. 11 consists of copies of Goudy Old Style and Goudy Bold. In the...
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These are sections F-6 through F-10 of the book of information issued by the Ludlow Typograph Company to its sales force. This particular copy of this book is No. 47, current through 1962. It appears here through the courtesy of its present owner, Jeff Shay. These sections cover the matrix fonts for Ludlow typeface families No. 6 (Gothics [various gothics, not all related]), No. 7 (Laureate), No. 8 (Clearface), No. 9 (Powell), and No. 10 (Artcraft). For an index of and links to scans of the...
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These are sections F-1 through F-5 of the book of information issued by the Ludlow Typograph Company to its sales force. This particular copy of this book is No. 47, current through 1962. It appears here through the courtesy of its present owner, Jeff Shay. These sections cover the matrix fonts for Ludlow typeface families No. 1 (Caslon), No. 2 (Cheltenham), No. 3 (Bodoni), No. 4 (Cushing Antique), and No. 5 (Century). For an index of and links to scans of the other sections of this book,...
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This section "F" (Fonts, General Information) of the book of information issued by the Ludlow Typograph Company to its sales force. This particular copy of this book is No. 47, current through 1962. It appears here through the courtesy of its present owner, Jeff Shay. For an index of and links to scans of the other sections of this book, see: http://www.circuitousroot.com/artifice/letters/press/noncompline/ludlow/literature/sales/salesmens-book-47/index.html
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This section S&Q (Spaces and Quads) of the book of information issued by the Ludlow Typograph Company to its sales force. This particular copy of this book is No. 47, current through 1962. It appears here through the courtesy of its present owner, Jeff Shay. For an index of and links to scans of the other sections of this book, see: http://www.circuitousroot.com/artifice/letters/press/noncompline/ludlow/literature/sales/salesmens-book-47/index.html
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